Question

　　Ruby, the artist, is an Asian elephant. She is 17 years old. She lives in the zoo. Ruby has produced about 100 paintings since last year. She has made more than ＄ 40,000 for the zoo. Zoo leaders say Ruby first showed the talent（才能）for art about four years ago. Zoo workers watched her make the marks in the sand with her trunk（象鼻）. She rubbed out the marks, then made the new ones. The zoo workers gave her brushes and paints. Soon Ruby was painting pictures. Newspaper reporters wrote about Ruby, and then people asked for buying her pictures. And in this way she made a lot of money for the zoo by painting.

　　This is how Ruby does the paintings: A zoo worker holds different color paints. Ruby touches the colors she wants. Then the worker gives her the chosen colors to the brushes in her trunk and Ruby begins painting.

(1) We can most probably read this story in ________.

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A．a dictionary of the world of animals

B．newspapers

C．a book on art

D．history textbooks

(2) Ruby first learnt to draw pictures ________.

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A．when it was very young

B．with brushes and paints

C．to sell to the people

D．in the sand with her trunk

(3) People asked for buying Ruby's pictures because ________.

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A．newspaper reporters bought her pictures

B．her pictures were better than the real artists

C．they just wanted to have fun

D．zoo workers would let them have a free visit to the park

(4) Ruby rubbed out the marks she had drawn in order to(为了) ________.

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A．draw other pictures

B．clean her trunk

C．dig a hole in the sand

D．ask for brushes and paints

(5) From the story we can know that ________.

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A．Ruby can draw a picture all by itself

B．Ruby can draw better pictures than the other animals in the zoo

C．Ruby has to draw a picture with the help of zoo workers

D．Ruby will ask for money if she finishes a picture

Answer 1

【全文翻译】

艺术家鲁比是一只亚洲象。她17岁了。她住在动物园里。自去年以来，露比创作了大约100幅油画。她取得了超过40

000＄动物园。动物园的领导说红宝石第一次表明，艺术人才（才能）大约四年前。动物园的工作人员看她的标志在

沙与她的躯干（象鼻）。她擦掉了记号，然后做了新的记号。动物园的工作人员给她画笔和颜料。不久，鲁比在

画画。报纸记者写了关于露比的文章，然后人们要求购买她的照片。就这样，她通过绘画为动物园赚了很多钱。

这就是Ruby是如何绘画的：一个动物园工作人员持有不同颜色的颜料。红宝石触摸她想要的颜色。然后工人把她

选中的颜色给她的皮箱刷，红宝石开始画。

答案：B;D;C;A;C